Skate



Patented May 9, I899. E. H. BABNEY.

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(Application filed Jan, 31, 1899' 2 Sheen-Sheet II.

(No Model.)

Patented May- 9, I899. E. H. BARNEY. SKATE.

(Application filed Jan. 81, 1899.) (No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EVERETT BARNEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,732, dated May 9,1899.

Application filed January 31,1899. Serial No. 704,016. (No model.)

12) all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EVERETT H. BARNEY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Skates, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to skates, and particularly to devices forlocking the same to the sole and heel of a shoe, the object being toprovide improved lever-actuated devices of this class which are adaptedto coact with a heel-abutment on the rear end of a heelplate which isfixed to the skate-runner; and the invention consists in the peculiarconstruction and arrangement of the heel-clamp and of the devicesintermediate of the latter and the sole-clamps, whereby said clamps,both for the heel and the sole, are permitted to adjust themselves totheir various bearings on the shoe when forced thereagainst, all ashereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in theclaims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a topplan View of a skate embodying my improvements and showing the free endof the clamp-lever turned outwardly. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of theskate, showing the central part of the runner broken away and the toe,the end of one soleclamp, and the end of the clamp-lever broken off.Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the-skate, showing the position ofclamping devices thereof when forced against the sole and heel of ashoe, the outline of the latter upon the skate being indicated in dottedlines. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the sole and heel clampconnections, including the heel-clamp, and of the mechanism foradjusting and operating said clamps.

Referring to the drawings, A is the runner of the skate.

B is the sole-plate, rigidly secured on the runner in the usual manner,and G is the heel-plate, likewise rigidly secured to said runner andprovided at its rear end With one or more heel-abutments d d and havinga longitudinal slot 6 extending inwardly from the forward end thereof.Said slot has a rabbeted border, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby adapting itto receive the projecting borders of the round flat head of a bolt f inthe said rabbeted border and provide for per mitting said bolt-head toslide longitudinally therein in consonance with the movements of a parton which the bolt is fixed, as below described. The face of saidbolt-head is in the plane of the under surface of said heelplate, asindicated in Fig. 2, and thus pre sents no projecting part beyond saidunder surface that can obstruct the movements of other parts, belowreferred to, over said surface. Said sole-plate has a longitudinal sloth through its rear end a little inward from its extremity, through whicha screw '11 passes, which unites the rear ends of the sole-clamps D D,(which are supported on the under side of said sole-plate in a well-knownmanner,) whereby their outer clamp-bearing ends may have simultaneousmovements toward and from the opposite borders of said plate, whichmovements are induced by the clamp-operating devices below described.Said clamp uniting and operating devices contain. an aumaticallyextensible and flexible bar F, and said bar comprises a forward section2 and a rear section 3, said bolt f being fixed on the latter, as alsois the heel-clamp E, either integrally or otherwise, and means foruniting said sections as follows: One end of each of said bar-sectionsis so formed that when the two ends are brought together they overlap,as shown, and the union of said sections is effected by a transverseequalizing-bar 6, pivotally connected by its extremities to theadjoining ends of said box-sections by pins or rivets 7. The describedmanner of fittingthe adjoining ends of said rear and forward sections ofsaid bar F one to the other and of uniting them by said equalizing bar 6and the pivoted rivets 7 provides fora certain degree of separation ofsaid sections, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, and for more or less oflateral deflection of said united ends, all for the purposes set forthbelow. A nut 8, having an arm lying against and pivotally connected tosaid bar 6 centrally between its ends, hangs downwardly at right anglesto the under side of said bar and forms a screw connection be tween theadjusting screw-rod 9 and said bar 6. One end of said screw-rod 9 isrotatably connected with the base of the clamp-operating lever lO by astud 12, fixed on the latter to one side of its pivot-point. Said leveris pivotally attached to the under side of said fixed heel-plate at m,Fig. 2.

The operation of the above-described devices for clamping the skate to ashoe is as follows: Swinging the free end of the operating-lever 10 tothe position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or still farther forward, imparts aforwardly-sliding movement to the said two-part bar F and the heel-clampE thereon and an outward movement to the extremities of the sole-clampsD D, as illustrated in Fig. 1, thus bringing all of the clamps topositions which permit of receiving the sole and heel of the shoetherebetween ready to be clamped to the skate. The said lever is thenswung in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1, whereby thesaid sole and heel clamps are brought in contact with the oppositeborders of the shoe-sole and the frontedge of the heel,as shown in Fig.3. A greater strain upon one sole-clamp than the other, caused by apeculiar conformation of the borders of the sole, is compensated for bythe described manner of connecting said lever to the forward section 2of said flat bar F through said equalizingbar, the latter under saidclamping strain so swinging as to permit the parts of the bar toseparate more or less, and thus when the soleclamps are brought to abearing against said sole edges permitting said section 3 of said bar,with the heel-clamp thereon, to move rearwardly and bring the latteragainst the inner border of the heel, as shown in Fig. 3.

Thus under certain conformations of the soleborders the said bar willpart, showing uniform openings therebetween on each border, as in Fig.1, and under other conditions of sole-shapes the clamping strain uponsaid bar may swing its pivotally-connected portions laterally more orless according to any unequal -strain upon either one of the soleclamps.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. The combination with the movable sole and heel clamps of a skate, ofa clamp-unitin g element comprising two bar-sections having overlappingextremities, a transverse equalizing-bar pivotally connected to saidoverlapping extremities, whereby said sections may move toward and fromeach other, a nut pivotally attached to said transverse bar, aclamp-operating lever hung to swing on said heel-plate, and a screw-rodconnection between said nut and lever, substantially as described.

2. In a skate, a connection between the sole and heel clamps thereofcomprising two bar-sections having overlapping adjoining extremities,united by a transverse equalizing- .bar pivotall y connected by itsends-to said extremities, substantially as described.

. EVERETT H. BARNEY.

Witnesses:

H. A. CHAPIN, K. I. CLEMoNs.

